Simian Substitute Sites Of The Month - 1999 Archive

January 1999 - Spunky Monkey's Cookery Show
The name may be a little suspect, but hey, he's Australian. Book Spunky Monkey for your children's party and watch them help him cook his Jungle Pikelets.

February 1999 - Ape-O-Naut
A celebration of monkeys both in space and elsewhere. Though I'm sure that when I originally recommended this site, it didn't have those dirty pictures of monkeys in it. Look away, kids.

March 1999 - Mr Monkey's Index Of Famous Monkeys
Subsequently relocated to the Citizen Lunchbox multimedia portal, this page exhaustively lists appearances by monkeys on TV, in movies and in books. I get more hits via my link on this page than from anywhere else, so if you've just come from there, hello.

April 1999 - Poptart Monkeys
Home page of a Pennsylvania-based rock band. Back in April 1999 they were getting grief from Kellogg's over the use of a trademark in their name, but they seem to have sorted that out now. Hooray!

May 1999 - The Monkey Dance (dead link)
Remember the spring of 1999, when the Hampster Dance was everywhere, and the world and his wife were rushing to get their own versions of it on the Internet? Well, this one had monkeys in it.

June 1999 - The Mad Monkey Society
Secret society of monkeys, gathering together to battle the coming apocalypse. Unfortunately, whoever programmed their Armageddon Clock didn't consider what would happen after the year 2000...

July 1999 - What's Going On: Birthday Of The Monkey God
This at least gives you an insight into how these sites are chosen. The Unpleasant Lair celebrated its first birthday in July 1999: so I did a search on the words "monkey" and "birthday", and...

August 1999 - Drum & Monkey, Edinburgh (dead link)
Well, not completely dead: the site Taste Of Scotland is still available to tell you about the best places to eat and drink there. But the entry for this Edinburgh bistro seems to have vanished, so it's either closed down or got really bad.

September 1999 - The Pointy Cheese Clan's Guide To Monkeys (dead link)
Tsk. Students. You turn your back on them for a few minutes and they've closed their websites down. I can't even remember what it was like now.

October 1999 - Prosthetic Monkey Consulting
Web consultancy firm with a very silly name but a rather cool logo. Given the high turnover in this business, the lack of site updates since January 2000 is a bit worrying.

November 1999 - Jiangsu Golden Monkey Machinery Group Corporation
Construction equipment and monkeys: an ideal combination (and the monkey-in-a-hard-hat logo is quite sweet as well). Check out the latest models in both English and Chinese.

December 1999 - Buy Spank's brain from Brains4Zombies.com
Splendidly detailed amazon.com parody site. If you experiment with the URL, you'll soon see that any name you put after the "brainID=" bit will be magically fitted into the text on the page (use %20 as your space character). Astound your friends!